How native speakers pronounce “protective”

that the way that I have to work now, in order to continue writing, is that I have to create some sort of protective psychological construct, right? I have to sort of find some way to have a safe distance

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So my first impulse in the face of all of this attention was to become very protective of my own relationship. I said no to every request for the two of us

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It was a pretty fresh day, so we were all rugged up in our protective gear. At a set of red lights,

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And think about it like the protective caps at the ends of your shoelace. And those keep the shoelace, or the chromosome, from fraying,

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for blocking traffic, for organizing sit-ins or for throwing soup or smearing paint on the protective covering of artwork. It's much harder for activists in the developing world.

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